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Charlie Kirk
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Blake Neff
Use me.
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Charlie Kirk
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All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Happy Monday. It's Thanksgiving week. We're excited to be with you. In studio, we have Blake Neff here as always, joined as well by the Zoran Mamdani questioner, the repeated questioner, bench presser, some might say Jack Bosobic, who was just at the White House on Friday during the Zoron Trump Accords. I want to hear, give us the.
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Jack Posobiec
Inside process, the peace accords.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah, give me the insight.
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Jack Posobiec
He did not share Diet Coke, though. I can confirm that no Diet Coke was shared or offered.
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Charlie Kirk
Or they didn't even offer it.
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That's that we didn't offer it.
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Blake Neff
Well, maybe I've never seen a person drinking diet.
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Charlie Kirk
All right, hold on. So, yeah, I have to. We have to play the clip. Just. I wasn't planning on just a bit of about face. It just happened on the off the spur of. Spur of the moment. This is cut 98. This is Jack repeatedly bench pressing Zohra.
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Jack Posobiec
Momdani, continuing this idea of race based property taxes.
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Scott Jennings
No, to be very clear, no, the. The use of the term was a description of neighborhoods, not a description of intent.
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Jack Posobiec
So you intend to tax the whiter neighborhoods more?
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Scott Jennings
No, we intend to create a fair property tax system because we want a New York City that is not only fair and equitable, but also one that.
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Blake Neff
Every New Yorker can afford.
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Charlie Kirk
Oh, we missed the first question there. There was like. There was that moment where you go, yes, you did. No, no, you absolutely did.
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Jack Posobiec
That's Clippy. It's hard to hear it. He's like, he's like, no. Yes, you did.
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Charlie Kirk
Well.
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Jack Posobiec
Well, no, you said.
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Charlie Kirk
Was a good clip. It was a good clip.
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Jack Posobiec
You said white neighbor.
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Charlie Kirk
I have to say, Blake sort of was warning about this beforehand. Blake was going, yeah.
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Blake Neff
Everyone was like, it's gonna be this big show. And I was like, Trump likes New York. He likes meeting people. He's not actually as hostile to his political enemies. Like, in person. Yes, he's actually quite genial.
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Charlie Kirk
Yes, he's very congenial in person. That's the word I was gonna use as well. And I kinda knew it was gonna be peaceful. And in walks Jack Posobic and sort of gives the. The people what they want.
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Jack Posobiec
Somebody. Somebody had to.
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Charlie Kirk
Some.
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Jack Posobiec
Somebody had to do something. Somebody did something. Some people did something. Ilhan Omar. No, it was. No, it was just this, this situation where I honestly just got. I'm so annoyed that, like, here's this theater kid who's up there, like, acting as if he didn't do all the Bollywood stuff on his acceptance speech and demagogue white people on the campaign and talk about how my campaign is for Blake. You remember the list, right? The Bangladeshi taxi driver, I think you.
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Charlie Kirk
Mentioned.
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Jack Posobiec
And the Ecuadorian abuelas and all the. That just, just went full mask off. And now he's trying to ratchet it back. He's trying to put the mask back on. And oh, no, I'm just a nice guy. All I care about is affordability, et cetera. And like, no, you, you said all these things. You just don't get to walk away from that because you're in the Oval Office. And you could tell, though I don't think anyone in media has ever really just like, held him to account on these things. They usually sort of like, you know, let him, let him just spill his word, sell it out and then go with that.
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Charlie Kirk
It was a total non answer too, by the way. He was like, it's a description of intent, not a.
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Jack Posobiec
So an intent to tax the white tax wider name.
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Charlie Kirk
Yes, exactly. And, you know, listen, we're going to watch and see how that happens. You know, Trump is giving him an olive branch not to be a crazy person. I think a lot of people interpreted that as Trump folding and being charmed by Mamdani. No, this is Trump 101 olive branch. Hey, we had a nice conversation. We're gonna hold off on doing anything crazy. Let's see what he does. And if he crosses me, we're gonna go for him.
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Jack Posobiec
Well, and imagine Mondame now having to go back to the Left and be like, why did you sit down with a fascist?
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah, yeah, exactly. He's got clips on that, by the way, where he's basically saying, everything I said about Trump still holds true now, which is a very, very strange thing to do. And he wouldn't actually just come out and say, yeah, he's a fascist. He said what I said previously is still true.
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Jack Posobiec
It would actually be funny if he.
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Charlie Kirk
Just said, come on, just say it, just say it. Anyways, we are going to talk about Ukraine. There is a massive movement that's been happening, Blake, on the Ukraine peace front. So there was. You can set this up, but there's essentially two competing deals that are now being floated. There is a US led effort that apparently happened with Witkoff and some Russian counterparts in Russia. That's where the negotiations were happening. And then there was. That was leaked. And then the EU rushed to put together their own point by point plan. The US one has 28 points and EU's is a little bit more pro. Yeah, let's just talk about Ukraine.
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Blake Neff
We didn't get to this last week, so there's been. It was a leaked 28 point plan, as they call it. We're not sure by whom, although evidence is it probably actually was leaked by the Russian side, which was capitalized on the press to say it was a Russian authored plan. But what's going on is we have actually haven't talked about the war in a while. The war is still going, it is still grinding. There is evidence it has been getting worse for Ukraine than it was a few months ago. They're losing ground a little bit faster, not super rapidly. It's a big meat grinder war. But things aren't looking promising. And so last week we had this peace plan come out, 28 points and some of the key ones. Do we have that B roll of the map that I gave you? I don't have the number in front of me right now, but yeah, throw that one up.
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Charlie Kirk
122.
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Blake Neff
122. So this is the heart of it. It would basically, it would cede to Russia the areas of Ukraine, basically what the current front line is. There's a tiny amount of adjustment in the north, but it essentially matches what the current front line is. It would create a demilitarized zone in Donetsk province, which is one that Russia wants, but they haven't taken all of it. So it would essentially demilitarize the parts still held by Ukraine.
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Charlie Kirk
That'd be the purple section.
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Scott Jennings
Yeah.
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Blake Neff
And what's very important is this deal. The 28 point deal would formally acknowledge Russia taking those territories as opposed to what some have insisted on where they might allow Russia to keep occupying them but continue to leave it as you know, not recognized, that Ukraine should take it back.
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Jack Posobiec
US recognize us. That means the President, United States would come out with the whole of government, Secretary of State saying, and that's something obviously another president could overturn. But of course the Russians could always point to saying that, look, the U.S. recognizes.
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Blake Neff
And truthfully I think that would, that is a very important part of what I think a long term peace would be. Because what has kept this, a tumor that has flared up over and over again is that it's not resolved. It is never resolved. There is no final jurisdiction. For 11 years now. For 11 years. And that's almost, that's likely what led to this war is the refusal to acknowledge the, the ceding of Crimea or I should say the seizure of Crimea. And you know, their original offer before the war happened was if you would acknowledge Crimea and then a few military concessions that they would be okay with a long term peace that wasn't ceded. So instead we got this war, other stuff in it. The peace deal would require Ukraine shrinking the size of its military. I think that will be a difficult sticking point.
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Charlie Kirk
That's the US version, not the EU version.
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Blake Neff
The US version. Yeah, the US version.
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Charlie Kirk
The US version caps the Ukraine military at 600,000, which is still huge by the way, for European terms especially. The EU plan would give no restrictions placed on you.
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Blake Neff
Yeah, it would not allow them into NATO though, would allow them into the European Union, which I feel would be a quite important session. Because is Russia going to invade a member of the European Union? Especially if the European Union maybe developed some sort of unified armed forces? Yes, it seems less likely to me. But the point is this is a lot of people have freaked out about this. There's a lot of opposition to it. There has been a counter European Union plan where the main argument they've made is basically that it has a smaller number of points in it and 19 points instead of 28, which means it concedes less to Russia.
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Jack Posobiec
The neocons are freaking out and that's the really big thing because they just don't want the war to end.
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Blake Neff
They don't.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, and here's the thing. I mean, I think they're still playing under an old paradigm. Here's one big key difference between the two plans. By the way, the Trump 28 point plan does offer G8 membership to Russia if they play by the rules over Time. So Russia could get back into essentially the League of Nations.
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Jack Posobiec
And Trump's talked about that a lot. Yeah, he mentions it, like, every time he goes to the G7.
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Charlie Kirk
That's a big carrot that is dangling out there for Russia if it plays by these rules. And I think here's the deal you have to your point, Blake, this war continues grinding on. There is no end in sight. Massive loss of life and casualties. One thing we know about Russia is they are very good at wars of attrition where they just grind them out long, long time. I mean, so I think that if you compare and contrast these two plans, you still have the European Union playing under the. An old paradigm, if you will. And I think the. Just analyzing both of them this morning and over the weekend, the Trump plan feels much, much more realistic. Legacy Box has been a proud sponsor of this show since 2021. And we here at the Charlie Kirk show are grateful to continue supporting a community that values family and tradition. You know how we talk about protecting what really matters. That's not just finances or politics. It's your family memories, too. We all have those old VHS tapes, film reels, maybe boxes of photos sitting in a closet. But time isn't on our side. Tapes wear out. Films fade. And before long, the stories of your childhood, your parents, and even your grandparents can be lost. That's where Legacy Box comes in. They make it simple. Order their kit, fill it with your old media, and send it back. Their team of experts carefully digitizes everything and returns both your originals and a secure digital version. You can stream, share and keep safe forever, with confidence, honor the moments that matter. And now, in Charlie's own words, go.
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I'm going to play the clip here. Let's play cut 93. All the women are talking about it. 93.
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Afton Ben
You told me this in private, but how many kids did you guys want to have? We wanted to have four. Yeah. And I was praying to God that I was pregnant when he got murdered. Oh, wow. I thought of that once. Just like whether it was meant to be or whether we. I know we'd get news like that. I was like, oh, goodness. That would be the ultimate blessing out of this catastrophe. I was praying. Both of us were.
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Charlie Kirk
We.
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Afton Ben
We were really excited to just expand our family. Thank God you have the two. I know. Thank God. You know, girl, I know.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah. It was a Powerful moment. You know, I was kind of like side stage and I, you know, I just never wanted to bring that type of stuff up with Erica. So it was news to me as well. I want to play some clips here from the Russia, Ukraine negotiations. This is Rubio and Yermak and they are issuing statements after the first round of negotiations. Play cut 90.
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Andriy Yermak
So it is in my personal view that we've had probably the most productive and meaningful meeting so far in this entire process. Since we've been involved from the beginning. We have a very good work product that was already built on a foundation of input from all the relative parties involved here. And we were able to go through some of those items now point by point. And I think we've made good progress.
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Charlie Kirk
So he's saying it's the most productive and meaningful meeting so far. And that was Andriy Yermak, who's the head of the Ukrainian delegation to Geneva. So those meetings were happening in Geneva. You know what's an interesting piece of this, by the way, is that a lot of people are speculating this 28 point peace plan was actually drafted in Russian because it looks, we mentioned that. Yeah, translated over.
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Jack Posobiec
But that, I think that's just because when Axios got it, they got it from, from the Russians. So we're probably in Russian. But my understanding was that. And Rubio came out and said, this.
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Charlie Kirk
Is the US yes, he said it.
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Blake Neff
Says it right there.
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Charlie Kirk
No, he said it was the US version. Go ahead.
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Blake Neff
What stands out to me about certainly the US plan is they'll complain that it's too pro Russian. Although I would just note, if you're going to oppose a plan that is pro Russian, I feel you need a plan for, okay, is Ukraine going to win the war? Are we going to go until every Ukrainian is dead so you can feel really morally righteous over their pile of corpses? Are you going to step up to pay for it forever? That should be the question to Europe. If they want it to go forever.
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Jack Posobiec
Or are you going to deploy your own troops?
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Blake Neff
Exactly like you have to ask those questions. Otherwise you're again, you're just demanding that every Ukrainian die for your sake.
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Jack Posobiec
Because this has been the issue, right, is that we keep backfilling. We when I say we, the West, EU, US, etc. Technology, drones, intelligence, etc. But nobody's actually sent troops. And the problem is, is that you can use those drones. You can, you can, you know, hit Russia in the backfield, target energy, infrastructure, things like this. But you know what? You can't do capture and hold terrain.
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Blake Neff
And only men can do that.
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Jack Posobiec
You need men for that. You just.
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Blake Neff
And, and that would be the biggest escalation of sending actual troops. And at that point, which nobody wants, you're dangerously close to the big escalation that we never wanted. So what stands out to me in the US Plan is it is a serious bid to say we are attempting to normalize relations with Russia after effectively a 20 year new cold war with them, if you will.
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Jack Posobiec
Here's the question that I think, and I don't know if we mentioned it, there is this question about, and Bannon's brought it up, the security guarantee for Ukraine.
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Scott Jennings
Right.
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Jack Posobiec
Is that like an Article 5 guarantee or.
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Blake Neff
Other stuff? Other stuff, though, it's that Russia gets reintegrated into the global economy, so we stop the endless sanctions. That's also why you frankly recognize the territorial change, so that there is a set mutually agreed upon border between the two. Instead of what stands out with the European plan is they don't want to acknowledge this. They want to continue that frozen conflict attitude that we had before this war where, okay, you, you occupy this land. But we're not acknowledging it. So it's a potential flashpoint whenever we want it.
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Jack Posobiec
I mean, a couple of months ago, people were saying when, you know, I remember I went to Alaska when, when Trump had to sit down with Putin, and Putin came over and, you know, but then it all kind of unraveled after that and they announced this Budapest thing, but then it never really got off the ground. And a lot of people were saying, hey, and Ukraine really wasn't agreeing to anything at that point. Zelinsky came in and like, look, we had the meeting, but you didn't agree to it. So people were saying that an armistice might be the only thing possible at that point. So the fact that UKRA is on board with this and we are seeing the Russians be on board with this, I think that actually speaks credibility to, or gives credibility to what Rubio is saying, that actually there's a real possibility for a deal here.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, and it strikes me, Blake, to your point is that the only way to have this be a lasting peace is if you officially recognize the ground that Russia has gained in this long, bloody war.
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Blake Neff
There's some portion of it, maybe there's a counter proposal. They can make sure that seeds some of it back or something.
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Scott Jennings
But.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, but, but to your point, it's. Look, we have to understand that Putin sees this as his legacy, you know, basically, you know, reverting the, the, the errors and the sins of his predecessors in the 90s and when, when the USSR fell. And so he wants to at least you have to give him something. Is my, my read on this. And I think this is a realistic Kremlin. Yes.
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Jack Posobiec
And say, you know, we did all this and this is what we got.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, you got to also understand that Putin is propped up by oligarchs. That's the reason he's able to hold on to powers, because he controls the oligarchs. You have to come back from a war like this and show something tangible. Otherwise this is going to just continue on forever.
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Jack Posobiec
And then the person who comes after Putin is going to be like 10 times worse if he's seen as a failure.
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Scott Jennings
Yeah.
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Charlie Kirk
I mean in theory that, I mean that the glass half full I think EU rose colored glasses vision is that they're going to be able to sort of feel like somebody better.
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Blake Neff
The fanatics who want this war to go forever, I feel like they're just calculating that Putin will die and then somehow Russia implodes after that. And I just think that strikes me as highly risky. Yeah.
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Jack Posobiec
The last time that we got rid of Lenin.
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Blake Neff
Think of the most insane war hawks you've seen in America. They exist in Russia too.
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Jack Posobiec
Sure do.
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Blake Neff
They're more insane. Arguably.
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Jack Posobiec
Yeah. You're like, let's glass Paris kind of guys.
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I'm so excited to welcome Scott Jennings, author of A Revolution of Common Sense, his new book. He's also the host of the Scott Jennings show on Salem, and you can find him on X at Scott Jennings, Ky for Kentucky. Good Kentucky boy. Scott, welcome to the show.
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Scott Jennings
Andrew, good to see you, my friend. And greetings from Northern Kentucky. Today I'm traveling a little bit and glad to join you on the Charlie Kirk show, my friend.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah, it's great to have you. I mean, the last time I saw you was with Charlie in Colorado, I believe. So It's a lot, but we stay in touch. You're doing great work. Congratulations on the book A Revolution of Common Sense. Why don't you tell us a little bit about the book and what it's about, why you wrote it.
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Scott Jennings
Well, I was listening to the president speak in January in his inaugural address, and he used this phrase, a revolution of common sense. And I thought at the time that would make a great book title because it is the perfect encapsulation or description of how he has rebranded the Republican Party and the conservative movement. And so I went to the Oval Office in early February. I pitched him on the idea of a book and we worked together on it. He gave me access to him to the Oval Office, to Air Force One, to the Cabinet, to several members of the senior staff. And I told him I thought that 100 people would come along to write books attacking him for this, that, and the other. But somebody who likes him, understands what he's trying to do and wants to give the American people a fair description of it ought to get a chance to write a book. And he agreed. So this was the product. And I'll just give you one more nugget, Andrew. I didn't know what to put on the COVID so I sent the President a message and said, what's your favorite picture of yourself from the first hundred days? And that's the photo that came back. So that's the president's favorite picture. I let him pick it.
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Charlie Kirk
Wow. Well, listen, the subhead, by the way, I think is really important. And the reason I want to call attention to it is because it is something that Charlie was obsessed with. It was what he was laser focused on. You said how Donald Trump stored Washington and fought for Western civilization. So you're painting this battle as an existential battle to save the west, to save Christendom. In a sense, I believe that Charlie believed that. Why do you believe it? If you could articulate it in the way Scott Jennings would, why do you believe the stakes are that high?
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Scott Jennings
Well, first of all, the last time, as you mentioned, that I saw Charlie and you together in Colorado, if you'll remember the conversation that he and I had in front of that audience, we talked a lot about the future of Western civilization. And this theme permeates the book because I think, and I talk about this in some of my public talks and I think Charlie understood this and articulated it well. We're not just battling about the day to day politics anymore. The future of our country, the future of the west, the future of, you know, whether we're going to live in a world that is based on the ideals that have been the foundation of our society for 3,000 years is going to continue. It's that versus really dark ideologies, people who would leave this world and darkness, people who have views that I think are really the enemies of human liberty. That's the battle that's going on right now. And I don't know whether President Trump knew he was signing up for it or not, but he is the leader of the fight for the future of the West. And look, this is, you know, the west isn't a place on a map. It's a set of ideas born in Jerusalem and Rome and Athens. And it's been the foundation of our civilization. It's been the foundation of our freedom. This is the civilization that gave birth to the Bible, the Constitution, the concept of a university. Everything we are is based on this pillars of Western civilization. And it's in danger. I think our financial situation and the mass migration crisis in the world and the march of these dark ideologies, I think they're all combining to really challenge the future of the West. It's what keeps me up at night. And I think the president's leading us admirably. But I think we all need to understand if you're within the sound of our voice, you're on the front lines of this battle right now, whether you know it or like it or not.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, well said. And I think you talk about front line of the battle. I want to bring Blake Neffen, one of our producers here, Scott, as well, for this conversation. So we were just talking about, in segments one and two about Ukraine, talking about frontline of the battle. There's a lot that's been made of this. The EU plan versus the United States plan. Give us your take. Just which plan do you see as the more realistic path to peace here?
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Scott Jennings
Well, Look, I've thought a few things, and Secretary Rubio, I think, has done a good job trying to manage this. Number one, it has to be a negotiated piece. Neither of these guys is going to go back to their capitol and take a knee and wave a white flag. I've never believed that. Number two, it has to be something that guarantees what's good for America. You know, what is good for us here? Security is good from a military perspective, but also economic security. We've spent a lot of money on this. We've spent a lot of time on this. What are we going to achieve out of this negotiated settlement? And number three, ultimately, are we going to get any guarantees that we're not going to be involved in any conflicts in the near medium or long term? I mean, that's the other thing we're looking for here. And so I hear Secretary Rubio sort of laying out these principles. I think he's on the right track. You have to involve both countries. I've been sort of, you know, flummoxed at people who say, well, we just have to take whatever the Ukrainians want and force Russia to accept. Well, how do you do that? How do you force another country to accept something? It has to be negotiated, and it has to be done from a position of strength, which is what I think Rubio is doing right now.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah, I mean, listen, I'm with you. It seems like the basic disposition of the neocon right and the neoliberal left are really into this idea that you can't give Putin anything. Putin bad. We have to be enemies with Russia. This fixation on constantly being at Russia's throat and never being able to see a future where relations are normalized. Blake, I thought you painted that picture extraordinarily well earlier in the show, where the power of this deal is that you would have to essentially, as the US Go over and say those regions are now part of Russia and there is a powerful. Powerful. I think it's symbolically powerful, but it's also pragmatic and realistic because those areas, they speak Russian, they probably want to be a part of Russia. Yeah. Ukraine would have to cede some territory, but they've already ceded the territory in battle. And so you've ultimately got to give Putin something if you want the killing to stop.
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Andriy Yermak
Yeah.
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Blake Neff
I think the most important thing here about this plan is it strikes me as a bid for a permanent peace. It is not anything that says, oh, we'll acknowledge you're there, but we're not going to recognize it. Things like that. Is treating it as a ceasefire. It is treating another war as the eventual outcome of this. Because if you're not recognizing it, your expectation seems to be there will be another fight about it someday.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah.
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Blake Neff
And whereas if you're reintegrating Russia into the global economy, if you're creating a new international border, the intent is this is supposed to be a permanent resolution. And I just feel there is no long run value for America or for the west generally. And just being in a cold war or hot war with Russia forever.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, and Scott, so I throw it to you. Let's play CNN here. Let's play a little game here. I'm going to be the, I'm going to be your counterpart. But Scott, isn't that rewarding bad behavior? Isn't that rewarding if we give Russia this territory and we acknowledge it as the US we're rewarding bad behavior, are we not? This is unrealistic for the future. It sets a bad precedent.
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Scott Jennings
Well, look, we've already punished Russia somehow and it has to do with sanctions that we recently put on oil companies. A, B, we got NATO members to do 5% on defense spending. No other president's gotten that done. C, Russia's goal was to take over all of Ukraine and to leave Ukraine not sovereign. And this plan would leave Ukraine sovereign. And so no, I don't think Russia's getting everything they want out of this, just like Ukraine is unlikely to get everything they want out of it. That's what we mean by the term negotiated peace. Plus, as I understand it, Ukraine's going to get a security guarantee out of this. That's not something the Russians probably wanted to go into this war thinking that would happen. And so, and let's not forget, on top of all of it, thanks to I think our help and thanks to the help of some other countries, Russia has suffered enormously in battle, casualties are high. Their economy in some ways has been wrecked over this. And so we have punished these guys quite a bit. And if you want the killing to stop, you're going to have to get to a point where both countries decide to stop. And that's the point of this agreement. But don't mistake that Russia got off scot free here. I don't think they did. And if this agreement were executed, as we've seen it laid out in public by Secretary of Rubio, this is not, I don't think the outcome that Putin would have wanted when he started this war.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah, I think that's spot on. Scott, here again, author of the I want to make sure I get the title just right. The Revolution of Common Sense. A Revolution of Common Sense. How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and Fought for Western Civilization. We've got two minutes left here in this segment. Scott, I don't want to. You. You brought it up when we were texting. And so I want to get to this story. She's being called the AOC of Tennessee. And so it's Democrat Afton Ben. And she is taking incoming because she is on the record now saying that she hates the city she wants to represent. Let's play 135 things have been heavily.
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Afton Ben
Involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I hate the city. I hate the Bachelorettes. I hate the Pedal taverns. I hate country music. I hate all of the things that make Nashville apparently. And it's city to the rest of the country, but I hate it. Yeah, I'm that girl at the airport that all these bachelorettes are giddy walking out and they're in their two toned colored pantone pink shirts and they walk out and I'm like, oh, my God, Nashville, so fabulous, so loud.
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Blake Neff
Before. Before we dunk on her. That woman could be elected to Congress next week. So again, if you live in the 7th district, you can vote right now. Early voting goes through Wednesday. Cast your vote now.
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Charlie Kirk
Scott, your reaction?
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Scott Jennings
Welcome. Well, welcome to the modern left. I mean, this is effectively a great hood ornament for what the Democratic Party has become. These sort of vapid liberals who really hate the people they live around. This district, by the way, is partly Nashville, but it also includes a huge swath of rural Tennessee. Does that sound like someone who's got anything in common with rural Tennessee? It doesn't. Me. On top of that, you may have seen that she has been a longtime supporter of defunding the police. She went on MSNBC this weekend and refused to denounce those views that she has espoused for years about defunding the police. I mean, this person couldn't be farther from the center politically of that district than she is. But this is where the energy in the Democratic Party is right now. She's the AOC of Tennessee. I mean, these sort of charismatic, condescending, hateful, socialist style candidates, that's who they're nominating. That's who they're trying to put forward all over this country. And in a special election, anything could happen. So my advice to Republicans down there is don't sleep on this. Trump won this district by over 20 points, but Democrats are pouring money into it for a reason. And if you think that's the kind of person you want in Congress. Think again.
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All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. I'm not. We're not done with Afton Ben here. There's so much. Good clip, good cuts on her. Let's. Let's see this. 139. This is her saying that rioting is a way for people to express themselves. And bragged about harassing ICE agents as you do. 139.
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Afton Ben
Afton Bain says, I'm a very radical person.
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Charlie Kirk
So radical.
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Afton Ben
Bane thinks rioting is a way for people to express themselves.
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Charlie Kirk
Worse, Bane went on a midnight joyride harassing ICE officers and state troopers.
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Great.
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Afton Ben
We've got our girl squad and we're bullying the ICE vehicles and state troopers. So this is like unhinged and it's really scary.
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Charlie Kirk
Stop. Afton Bain. So radical. It's scary.
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Blake Neff
So this is. That is a. It's in a Republican plus 10 district.
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Charlie Kirk
That Trump won by 20, right?
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Blake Neff
Yeah. So it is a race we should win. But I mean, the headline today on the Hill is Democrats look to cap off winning streak with Tennessee special election. They are paying attention to it. They are putting money into it. We have to acknowledge they're a little more fired up right now, as you know, they were during Trump's first term. That's how we got. You know, it started off with Jon Ossoff running for House, and I think he lost the first time, but it was very close, I think is what it originally was. And then it. He just Gained more and more momentum. So if you are in Tennessee, I know you're out there. Go vote early right now. You can do it today, you can do it tomorrow, you can do it Wednesday. Do it now. Get it out of the way.
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Charlie Kirk
Yep.
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Blake Neff
Otherwise, vote on Tuesday and put this to bed. Don't allow us to lose this. If we lose this one, it will be really embarrassing and really bad for everything.
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Scott Jennings
Look, I mean, these Democrats have gone from defunding to dehumanizing and degrading the police. I can't imagine there's anybody in Nashville or surrounding areas that wants their representative in Congress to view law enforcement in that way. So if you need only one reason, that's it.
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Charlie Kirk
All right, Scott. So we're talking about this special election in Tennessee, which we should win, but Democrats are more fired up than we are, so we got to keep our eye on the prize here. We got to stay focused, go out and vote. As Blake said, that's exactly what Charlie would have said. Just get out and vote. Vote early, get it done. You don't want to flat tire on election day to get in their way. But now we have mtg. She has announced her resignation. Obviously, there was a huge fallout with President Trump. Our majority is getting slimmer and slimmer, and we gotta keep our eye on this. I think mtg's district is another r plus 10. So we're gonna have a special election there, it sounds like. What do you make of this? Why are we seeing this? A lot of people calling this the fracturing of the right right now. We're kind of at a nadir when it comes to energy. What do you make of it?
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Scott Jennings
Well, a couple things. One, I still think Donald Trump is enormously popular among Republicans. I mean, I saw a data segment with Harry in CNN this morning on. On this means he had an 87% approval rating among Republicans. That's higher than Obama had with Democrats and at this point, his second term, higher than Bush had with Republicans in his second term. So in terms of his clout and influence in the party, I think that's really high. But you do see people starting, I think, to break with him for one reason or another on certain issues, and they really should not. I mean, my view is politics is a team sport, and he's the head coach, and he's still calling the plays right now. And we have a united opposition. You know, the media, the Democrats, the federal bureaucracy, the judiciary. I mean, you have these sort of entrenched interests that are united in trying to overwhelm the conservative movement. When we fracture, it makes them. It makes their job a lot easier, frankly. And so I don't like it, I guess, candidly, when my friends, our friends are fighting. And I don't like it when it seems like there's a fracture. But we have a leader. His name is Donald Trump. And I think we ought to respect that. And I know people have differences of opinion on certain issues, but at the end of the day, we're fighting larger battles here, and internal fractures make it harder to win those larger battles.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah, I completely agree. And you've been excellent on staying focused on the left, Scott. I mean, this is your, I would say it's your day job. It's really your night job on cnn. I want to play because it's just going. The clips are making the rounds. You went on Kara Swisher's podcast and she claimed that the Hunter Biden coverup of the laptop was just politics as usual. I got to play this clip and get your reaction. 123.
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Scott Jennings
The story was true. There wasn't really any dispute of that, other than from these 50 people who come from government, who are in and out of government when Democrats are in power.
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Afton Ben
That's politics to me, Scott. I mean, you're not naive. They were making their case, just like you would say Trump just did with whatever issue he has.
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Scott Jennings
Well, I don't agree that it is just a simple matter of making your case. It was one of the biggest lies that was told to try to get Joe Biden over the finish line.
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Blake Neff
Do you.
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Scott Jennings
Do you think it's just politics as usual?
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Afton Ben
Yes, I do, actually. I think it's. I do. I. Absolutely.
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Charlie Kirk
So. So lying, Scott, is just politics to the Democrats. You could just lie. Now.
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Scott Jennings
Honestly, it's worse than lying because it took 50 people that had intelligence titles. They've been director of the CIA, they've been this, they've been that. And they put their own credibility out there to say this was Russian disinformation. And then on top of that, you had news outlets that were being forced to censor information. You had social media companies that were censoring information. They were stopping the American people from getting access to information on the doorstep of an election. It was. It was a big misinformation op for the party that's constantly worried about misinformation. That's all it was. Remember, the New York Post had its social media accounts shut down because they're the ones that broke the story. So this was not politics as usual. But to the left, anything goes. They will do anything. They will coerce anybody, they will censor anything in order to get political power. And I think that's what we have to realize that we're up against. It's not politics as usual. It's something much, much worse than that.
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Charlie Kirk
And they have a whole media apparatus that will completely whitewash it on the back end when they cop. Scott Jennings, a Revolution of Common Sense. Check out his new book. Thank you, my friend. It's good to see you.
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Scott Jennings
Good to see you, Andrew. Thank you, brother.
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Blake Neff
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Scott Jennings
Com.