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Donald Trump
Humans are persuading no one. They know that they're failing. They have the devil's ideology, and they're failing. And they know it, they feel it. And they become violent. They seem to become very violent. On the left, they've rammed vehicles into federal law enforcement, fired sniper rifles at ICE agents. And me, you know, but I was. I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. I turned to the right. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually. He said, how the hell did you make that turn? I said, I don't know. But fired rifles and threatened the lives of our Supreme Court justices, our great justices. They have to be protected. We just issued a lot of money, $60 million to protect the Supreme Court justices. Very important. We can't let anything happen in places of worship. We're protecting our people. We've seen that. A candidate for attorney general in Virginia boasted that he would want to see the Republican legislature, a legislator in Virginia, shot in the head and to see his children murdered. He actually said this. And now he continues to run for office, and most people continue to back him. But he said he wants his man shot. Said shot in the head. And to see his children murdered and they keep running. Pretty amazing, right? That's a bad one. Let's see how that turns out. But that's a really bad one. Nobody's heard that one before. Especially in the wake of Charlie's assassination. Our country must have absolutely no tolerance for this radical left, violence, extremism, and terror. We're done with the angry mobs, and we're done. We're not going to let our cities be unsafe. We're going to make sure our cities are safe. When you have Chicago, where they had 4,000 people murdered over a very short period of time, 4,000 people. And then we have a governor stand up and say, oh, things are going swimmingly. No, they're not. We're going to make Chicago safe, just like we're going to make. Look what we did in D.C. it's so nice that we started here because this was one of the most violent places in the United States. It would be dangerous to be right out here. But you couldn't go to a restaurant. The restaurants were all dying. The whole place was dying. You'd have these gorgeous. Look at the Washington Monument over there. You'd have these gorgeous buildings and monuments and structures, and people were afraid to leave their apartment. They were afraid to go to work. They'd get into an Uber and they'd feel safe. And then the Uber would be attacked. They thought they made it to safety, and then the Uber was attacked on the trip in. But we've done a great job and now it's considered a totally safe city. We haven't had problems. Took us 12 days to make it great. We took out Pam 1700 hard criminals, career criminals in many cases, but these are hardened criminals. Many of them came in through the Biden open borders. We brought them back to the countries and a couple were so violent that we put them in jail. We don't want to take a chance that they could get back in, because no matter how good we do, somebody can sneak in. They were so violent and so, so bad. One arrested 28 times. Every time he left prison, he'd get into a violent incident 28 times. And we put him away for a long time. But we're done with the angry mobs. We're done with it. This is such an unbelievable place right now. You take a look where you can walk down the middle of the street with your wife or your husband, your children can walk, they can walk alone. It doesn't matter. They can walk anywhere in Washington and they're safe now. If this were a year and a half ago, a year ago, they'd have a serious chance of being badly hurt, even killed. Even killed. They'd come in from Indiana, they'd come in from Iowa, they come from Florida to see their nation's capital. And somebody would have to call the parents. I'm sorry, but your son or your daughter has been killed. Not anymore. You hear those sirens going off. That's good. That's a good sound. That means they either got the bad guy or they're going to stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that sound because nobody wanted to do anything. Nobody. Listen to the beauty of that sound. Seriously. And that's the real deal. Sirens. They're not politically correct sirens. You hear them? They're about three miles away. That's great. What a beautiful sound. They're stopping crime. That's what they're doing. So we are done with the voices of fools. They're fools and death threats, and we're going to make our cities safe. And I thought it was Charlie's. One of his biggest dreams was that he couldn't believe it. Chicago is going to be a great city again. We've already, you know, we sent people in there six months ago, and this governor said, well, crime is down. Yeah, that's because we had the FBI in there for six months just preparing it for the bigger surge. And They've done a great job. The cash and the FBI, they've done a great job. And they love doing it. You know, they love being able to do it. They were restricted from doing it. They couldn't do anything. And now they're totally unrestricted. They all they have to do is stop crime and they're doing it. By the way, Memphis, as you know, you heard, they went in about a week ago, one of the most dangerous places in the country, really, in the world. It's not just the country. They have very few cities that would compare to some of these cities. You go to Afghanistan, you say, oh, that's unsafe. Well, the crime numbers are much better than the crime numbers in places that we have. So Memphis, I understand, is doing unbelievably in one week, it's like a different place. And this took 12 days. And then after that, we just perfected it. But after 12 days, we had good safety here. After one month, it's like, it's really amazing. And by the way, restaurants are booming. Restaurants are opening up. The big problem we have, you can't get into a restaurant in D.C. anymore. So they're opening up. It's a beautiful thing to see. It's called safety, it's called law enforcement. And letting them do their job. And that's why I said last month that I have directed the Attorney General and the Department of Homeland Security to confront the very real threat of left wing terrorism in our country. It's a real threat. Not when you confront it. It's not, because they're not brave people. In fact, they're cowards. When you confront them, they immediately fold. You have to see them fold. You have to see them crying. They fold. But it includes dismantling the networks that fund them and finance them. And we're finding out who those networks are. We already know quite a few of them. When you see these violent incidents, and then you see people holding this gorgeous sign with beautiful wood, beautiful cardboard wood. Everything, everything's perfect paint job. And they're all the same. There are thousands of them. You know that they weren't made in the basement out of love. They were made by anarchists and in some cases wealthy. I'll probably find some of my nice friends that are up there being so nice to me, especially lately. They're being very nice. But it surprises you who they may be and you almost wonder why. Why, why would they do it? But they're hurting our country and we're really taking it back one by one. If we didn't go into Los Angeles. Early on in the administration, the commissioner, the chief of police, Los Angeles, said, if they didn't go in, we would have lost our city. Now, they already lost 25,000 houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest, which they should have done. I said, you better do it. They didn't do it. And we had 25,000 homes where they had no water in their sprinklers, they had no water in their fire hydrants. It would have been a different kind of a thing if they did what they were supposed to do. We had a break in. We broke in and had the water come down. They actually, they said, for the environment, it's great. They lost 25,000 houses. It's incredible. But the commissioner said, without the federal government and President Trump's intervention, we would have lost the entire city. And we have the Olympics going there soon. I got the Olympics. We have the Olympics, we have the World cup, and we have, most importantly, we have the 250th anniversary of our country. That's going to be most important. And all of these things are happening, and we're going to have safe cities. We're going to have very, very safe cities. So one month after Charlie's death, we still feel the terrible shock and the pain of his loss. Like just about nobody I can think of, Charlie Kirk was one of a kind. He was unstoppable, and he really was. Boy, when he had an idea in his head, oh, he was. He would call me, sir, please. You haven't done it yet, said Charlie. Relax. Just relax. He didn't relax and called me the next day again. He got it done, but he was, like, indomitable and always will be. He's really irreplaceable. Nobody can replace him, but they're going to do great. But you can't replace that kind of person and that kind of talent. Frankly, the word talent is an important word, but that kind of talent. So we hold his memory in our hearts forever. Every single day of this administration. We will continue to carry out the mission for which he lived. And he really did. He lived for this country. He lived for his wife and his family, but he lived for this country, too. In Charlie's honor, we will continue like we have been, to fight, fight, fight, and to win, win, win. We're going to win so much. So the Presidential Medal of Freedom is a big deal. You have the Congressional Medal of Honor, military and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the. Which is civilian, and the Presidential Medal Freedom is a really big deal. Very few people get it. Very few people, frankly, qualify. It's a decision of the President. But it's a qualification that's a very hard one to get. And I would like to ask, if I might, the military aide to read Charles James Kirk's citation for the Presidential Medal Freedom. Thank you very much. Thank you.
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Military Aide
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to Charles James Kirk. Accepting on behalf of Charlie is his wife, Mrs. Erica Kirk. Charlie Kirk was one of the most influential American political figures of his generation. At just 18 years old, he founded Turning Point USA and grew it into the largest conservative youth organization in the nation. For over a decade, he tirelessly traveled the country leading a movement to restore respect for our founding principles, reawaken our national identity, and inspire a renewed spirit of religious devotion. He was one of the great debaters and communicators of his time. Despite receiving repeated threats, he remained undeterred and modeled courage, logic, humor and grace to the next generation. On September 10, 2025, at age 31, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while addressing a group of students. The United States honors him as a martyr for truth and freedom.
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Erica Kirk
Thank you, Mr. President, for honoring my husband in such a profound and meaningful way. And thank you for making this event a priority with amid the peace process in the Middle East. Thank you. Very grateful. Char. Charl. Excuse me. Charlie always admired your commitment to freedom. And that's something that both of you shared. So thank you. Your support of our family and the work that Charlie devoted his life to will be something I cherish forever. So thank you to our gracious first lady in her office for making this event possible. Thank you as well. It's beautiful. To Vice President and the lovely USHA fans, your friendship has been an unbelievable encouragement. Thank you. And to all our friends and family that are here watching from all around the world, thank you for loving us. Thank you for praying for us and for believing in what Charlie believed in. And to our Turning Point USA staff and the Charlie Kirk show staff, we love you more than you could ever know. And to the Turning Point USA chapters that are watching all across America right now. You are the heartbeat of this future and of this movement. Everything that Charlie built. You guys are the legacy holders of that. You are living proof that his mission did not die with him. It lives through you. And Charlie always said the next generation will decide whether freedom endures. And because of you, I know that freedom will endure. It will. And today we're gathered not only to celebrate Charlie's birthday, but to honor a truth that he gave his entire life to defend. And that's freedom. The very existence of the Presidential Medal of Freedom reminds us that the national interest of the United States has always been freedom. Our founders etched it into the preamble of our Constitution. And those words are not relics on parchment. They are a living covenant. The blessings of liberty are not man's invention. They are God's endowment. Charlie lived for those blessings, not as abstract words, but as sacred promises. He used to love to journal about this topic all the time and with such a heart postured of gratitude. And he believed that liberty was both a right and a responsibility. And he used to say, freedom is the ability to do what is right without fear. And that's how he lived. He was free from fear. He was free from compromise, free from anything that could incur enslave his soul. His name, Charles, literally means free man. And that's exactly who my husband was. He was a free man. And from the time I met him, sitting across from him, being interviewed on politics and philosophy and theology, anything that Charlie loved, any topic, he loved. And I just saw the fire in his soul and there was this divine restlessness within him that came from knowing God placed him on this earth to protect something very, very sacred for all of us. And he never stopped fighting for people to experience freedom. He didn't. Jesus, Charlie often said that without God, freedom becomes chaos. And he believed liberty could only survive when anchored to truth. And I remember in one of his speeches, he told the audience that the opposite of liberty isn't law. He said, it's captivity. And that the freest people in the world are those whose hearts belong to Christ. But what's so powerful is that Charlie had the ability to communicate so brilliantly across all generations. And he reminded us that in a world that tells us freedom is doing whatever you want to do, the real freedom is the power to live freely and to do what is right. And in one of his journal entries, he wrote that he wanted everyone to know that you can't have liberty without moral responsibility. Freedom divorced from faith eventually just destroys itself. And what's so fascinating about all of this is looking back these past 12 years of Turning Point USA and his mission, there's almost this veil of sacredness. Because what I realized is that while he was building an organization, he was also building a movement, one that called people back to God, back to truth, and a movement that was filled with courage. And ironically, for a man who impacted millions, Charlie never desired to be the center of attention. He just wasn't My husband was not a man of extravagance. He loved simple but deeply meaningful things. Truly. He loved his late night walks. He loved buying more books than he could ever read because he felt there was no such thing as a book budget. And he loved being able to read to our kids the same bedtime story on repeat because he knew it was their favorite. And. But to him, that was special. And he loved to sit in the sun on a Saturday morning with his cup of decaf coffee and his phone was off because he was honoring the Sabbath. And for him, it was that moment to catch his breath and just be in peace, because he was unreachable at the moment and he preferred quiet birthdays. That never stopped me from telling him. I told him every single year. I said, baby, I love your birthday. I said, because it's the day that God knew the world couldn't go another day without you. And so the rhythm of our usual birthday celebration for him was mint ice cream, mint chocolate chip ice cream. He only had it twice a year on his birthday. And Fourth of July, it's just. And then after that, he was back to work as usual. But last year, his one birthday wish was to see the Oregon Ducks play the Ohio State. And they won. Oregon won that night. And it was by far one of the most memorable nights of his birthday, experience of his life until today. And so, honestly, President Trump, I have spent seven and a half years trying to find the perfect birthday gift for Charlie. And it's so difficult. And those of you that have spouses or loved ones, you know how difficult it is sometimes to buy a gift for someone that you love, because he wasn't a materialistic man. So that also did not help. But now I can say with confidence, Mr. President, that you have given him the best birthday gift he could ever have. It's such an honor. And the recognition of a life lived for defending freedom. And that's what Charlie fought for until his last breath. And it was written across his chest in those final moments on one of his simple T shirts that always carried a message. And this one bearing a single word, freedom. That was the banner over his life. And that shirt was a declaration. The same declaration he made in every speech, every campus visit, every time he shared the gospel at a church, every sleepless night that he would spend praying for the youth of this nation and planning for the future of our country and just impressing upon them that when we defend liberty, we defend the soul of our nation. My husband never told anyone what to say. He never did he never told anyone what to say. He would just encourage them to think. He would encourage them to think outside of the traditional political labels. He would want them to think in a way that was anchored in wisdom and truth. But he would never tell anyone what to say. Charlie wasn't content to simply admire freedom. He wanted to multiply it. He wanted to multiply freedom. He wanted young people to taste it and to understand it and defend it. He wanted them to see that liberty isn't self indulgence, it's self governance under God. He wanted them to see that. And every day I'd see him getting ready for work. He'd put on his cross necklace. He'd put his ring on his finger. And the boldness in his demeanor was always fearlessness. He wasn't afraid. He was never afraid. And his daily actions, whether in office or on campus or at a church, it was always without fear. That was his creed. That is. That is how he lived out every single day. He didn't fear being slandered. He did not. He didn't fear losing friends. I can tell you that. He didn't. He didn't care. He stood for truth and stood for freedom and he did not. Everything else was just a noise to him. And it's because his confidence in Christ was absolute. That's why there was no limit. No limit to what he would have sacrificed to defend freedom for all. And if the moment had come, he probably would have run for president. But not out of ambition. He would only have done it if that was something that he believed that his country needed. From a servant's heart standpoint. Charlie lived only 31 short years. I was 32, but on this side of heaven. But he lived. He lived every single second, he lived. He filled every single day with purpose. And he fought for truth when it was unpopular, and he stood for God when it was costly. But that's what we're called to do. Surprisingly enough, he did pray for his enemies, which is very hard. But he did. He did. He did. No one else. I mean, I saw him do it. No, he never did it in front of anyone else, but I can attest to that. But he also loved people when it was inconvenient. And he ran his race with endurance. And he kept the faith. And now he wears the crown of a righteous martyr. And for me and for our children, the truth really studies our grief. Because heaven gained what earth could no longer contain. A free man made fully free to all watching. This is. This is not a ceremony. This is a commissioning and My message is simple. I want you to be the embodiment of this metal. I do. I want you to free yourself from fear. I want you to stand courageously in the truth. Listen for the still, small voice of.
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Erica Kirk
And remember that while freedom is inherited in this country, each of us must be intentional stewards every single day. God began a mighty work through my husband, and I intend to see it through. And the torch is in our hands now. It's in mine. It's in yours. It's in all of yours. It's in all the students with Turning Point usa. And before I close, I'll share with you that I asked our daughter what she would like to say to Daddy for his birthday.
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Dana Perino
Excuse me.
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Erica Kirk
She said, happy birthday, Daddy. I want to give you a stuffed animal. I want you to eat a cupcake with ice cream, and I want you to go have a birthday surprise. I love you is what she said. And while our son is precious, he can't yet speak in classic Kirk family fashion. His actions spoke louder than his words. And his gift to you, Charlie, and myself for that matter, was deciding to become the man of the house and be fully potty trained at 16 months. Charlie, baby, I know that you're celebrating in heaven today, but gosh, I miss you. We miss you and we love you and we promise we'll make you proud. And Charlie's life was proof that freedom is not a theory, it's a testimony. He showed us that liberty begins not in the halls of power, but in the man of a heart surrendered to God. And so today, as we honor Charlie with this incredible Presidential Medal of Freedom on his birthday, I stand here with tears and just humbled heart and spirit because his story reminds us all that to live free is the greatest gift, but to die free is the greatest victory. Happy birthday, my Charlie. Happy Freedom Day.
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Donald Trump
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Greg Gutfeld
The President of the United States and the widow of Charlie Kirk walking off to Amazing Grace on the violin. Welcome to the Five. Just moments ago, you saw President Trump awarding the late Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He said Charlie's name is now in the eternal roster of true American heroes. It's the highest civilian honor and Erica Kirk accepting it on the behalf of her late husband. Today would have been Charlie Kirk's 32nd birthday. And Erica said this would have been the best birthday gift she could have imagined in their seven and a half years together. Let's go around the table. You know, Dana, as I sat there and watched Erica Kirk, there are two times when she became visibly emotional. It's when she talked about Charlie reading the same bedtime story to her daughter. We know she told her kids that Charlie was just on a work trip with Jesus. And her daughter's message to Charlie was, happy birthday, Daddy. I would give him a stuffed animal. I'd eat a cupcake with ice cream with him, go have a birthday surprise.
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Dana Perino
Right? It is remarkable that he was only 32 years old and all that he accomplished. And I thinking about Erica Kirk, I've never had the pleasure to meet her, but I do think she's the best orator of her generation, possibly the best writer. She can bring a gentleness and an authenticity with words strung together that sound like a song and they come straight from her heart and it makes you focus and listen in the very intentional way that she wants. And again, it's a gentle way of leadership. And what I believe that talking points. Excuse me. Help me.
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Greg Gutfeld
Turning Point.
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Dana Perino
Turning Point. Thank you. I'm so sorry. I was just really struck by her words and I. It's hard not to get emotional as well, especially when she talks about the children. I also liked it when she said that he didn't think there was a book budget and how she had said he was on a work trip with Jesus to pay for the blueberry budget. But Turning Point USA is in very capable hands. And the assassin wanted to chill this speech and to chill this organization, and I mean, basically he just accelerated it. And the numbers of the people all across the country that want to get involved from the young people and older, I mean, the high school chapters, the college chapters, but it's not just that. And then you add the desire to have civil debate on top of a desire to return to faith. You have a very powerful, incredible movement. And it's also kind of striking for me, I think probably for a lot of you, that this president on Sunday flew to first, got the phase one part of the deal done between Israel and Hamas, flies there to be with his friend Benjamin Netanyahu in this moment to be there with the hostages as they're released, flies to Sharm El Sheikh, has that moment with them, flies home, has a meeting with the Argentinians today to try to shore them up, and then does this very powerful event at the White House, and his day is not over yet. So it's really quite remarkable. But I could just maybe end again that what the assassin did is ensure that Charlie Kirk's message continues and is amplified. And really, all kudos to Erica Kirk, who is an incredible orator. I'm not sure I'VE ever seen anyone that good and that powerful as a speaker.
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Greg Gutfeld
Yeah, it's incredible to watch. She's so authentic and real. And, you know, you're watching the President there in the Rose Garden where he said, you tried to silence the voice of righteousness, and you failed because truth is unrelenting. What a powerful statement. You know, Lawrence, when you and I covered the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, you know, there's a lot of focus on her saying, I forgive him. But there were another three words that I think were very important. She said, thy will be done. And you can see that in Erica Kirk today. To the New York Times, she said, I'm serene in saying, thy will be done. I surrender to it. Do I like it? No. That was the love of my life, my soulmate, my best friend. But God's plan is greater than ours. And you see someone who's excited, accepted the plan.
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Harold Ford Jr.
As difficult as that is, I continue to say this. Ever since his assassination, that is hard. In practice, I haven't forgiven people for less, and they didn't assassinate my loved one. I want to talk about the award first, because it's one thing when you give someone an Oscar for a checkbox, right? They were some part of some minority group, or you give an Emmy to someone because it was an okay show, it felt like you deserve it, or you give a Nobel Peace Prize to someone because they hoped for peace, but really didn't achieve peace. But when you give someone an award that actually deserved it, right, the Medal of Freedom with someone that laid down their life for the freedom of speech, you elevate the award. And I think that's what the President did today on his birthday today, as he elevated the world. I will say this, though. There is unquestionably still this stinging sensation within the conservative movement right now, and I don't think that many people on the other side of the aisle get it. You know, when we do criminal analysis and criminal profiles and motives, it's not just if the person was a Democrat or a Republican. That's not a part of the profile. It is the motive of why they did that. And because the killer directly talks about the value system that many of us hold, right? And many people have yet to say that is the reason why he did that. And we want that to stop, not the debate to stop. And so when we see people that we love or some people that we know that we went to school with or anything, make posts about Charlie, I hope they realize that we're wondering, do you feel the same way about me as well. And I think that is a conversation that many of our friends need to wrestle with with themselves because the assaults continue on people because of their ideology.
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Greg Gutfeld
Yeah, that 22 year old lit a raging fire, Greg, when he killed a 32 year old father to a leader of a movement. 130,000 chapter requests, six times, which Charlie had envisioned for all of TPUSA.
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Joe DeVito
Yeah, I don't think he could have predicted that people were going to end up trying to find out who this person was. It's like how people, when you're a child, you learn about Christ and you're like, why was he crucified? So your first question is always going to be, why was this person murdered? I think a lot of people who didn't know him thought that it was about owning the libs, owning the woke, but it wasn't at all because all fads and delusions come and go. There will be something after woke that is probably just as bad or worse. So it wasn't about the actual thing, it was about how do you respond to the thing. And that was what Charlie Kirk was teaching people, was that you do not have to obediently respond to mob pressure. You do not have to behave like the people around you. So for Kirk, it wasn't about politics, it was about your response to contemporary politics. The pressure to belong, the fear of being ostracized. I didn't have this when I was in college and to have this sharing of risk in which you can be your own person and there's somebody else around you that'll do the same thing. I think he taught you, he taught you how to think for yourself and how to resist the intimidation of groupthink. So it's when people say, oh, like it was just fun to watch him, you know, go. It wasn't about that. It was about teaching you to face anything that is, that is, I don't know, just awful. But, but coming at it with reason and with logic and, and he wasn't fearless. If you're fearless, then heroism isn't possible because you don't have any. He was able to brave his fears. You know, he knew the risk when he would talk to these people, but he shared the risk anyway. And I think about that like, you know, Scott Adams was talking about all the people that support Trump for the last 10 years. You know, they knew the risk to their relationships, to their reputations, but they still did it anyway. It's like J.K. rowling standing up against the trans movement. She knew that. But she did it anyway. Charlie did it anyway. It's not about being fearless. It's about being able to just brave the fears. And I think that was one of the amazing things about Kirk.
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Greg Gutfeld
And you look at the legacy he left. I mean, I was just watching the president leave the Rose Garden there. You saw the vice president, you saw Marco Rubio, you see this. Cabinet officials mixed with Mikey McCoy and Turning Point USA staff. And one of the things Harold Erica said was there's a renewed spirit of religious devotion in the country because of him. And I think you see that a little in President Trump. Like, yes, he's still got his way of doing things. You know, I hate my enemies. You know the language he uses. But he also said this today, Charlie Kirk's in heaven. He is with Jesus in heaven. Vance echoing similar language in his speech. It's a little different tone from the president.
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Lawrence Jones
You know, I echo all that's been said. My prayers go out and continue to lift up his wife, who I don't know, and the kids, who she, when she talked about her daughter, her daughter and her son wishing him a 32nd birthday, you couldn't help but be moved whether you were a parent or not. She said that he loved them when it was inconvenient. Something I think that all of us could take a lesson from and that he prayed for those he disagreed with. He prayed for his enemies. We need to figure out how to get back to that in our country. For me, Kayleigh, the legacy, the most powerful legacy, in addition to trying to follow those things, which I imagine that Charlie took some time to try to figure out how to do those things. And the Lord gives us the abilities to do these things, but it's still a struggle. That's why faith is an everyday thing. I view him as someone that believed in free and serious and open minded and increasingly, to Lawrence's point, safe conversation and debate. We've got to get back to that. Charlie, whether you agreed with him on any of the substantive issues, his substantive positions, one thing you would have to agree with him on, at least I do. If you believe in our political system and democracy and the things that Greg was articulating is that he believed in safe debate, serious debate. And finally, the thing that I align most with him is that he accepted Christ in his life as I have, as I did and have. And I'm reminded I watched him. I went back and looked from 18 and 19 years old to 31 years old, Charlie, and he grew like you would want someone. He evolved. He had his positions, but he was a different person. It reminded me of how he lived his life. The book of Jeremiah, the 29th chapter 11 verse says that we begin to see that God isn't done with us. He doesn't have plans to harm us, but to prosper us. Even if you disagree with this young fellow and you found his views something that were not accepting in your life, find something positive about what he stood for. And if you could do nothing, if you can't find anything he stood for, love his kids because they're without a father on his 32nd birthday.
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Erica Kirk
Yeah.
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Greg Gutfeld
Erica is saying he called people back to God, truth and courage. That sums up the life of Charlie Kirk. All right, up next, President Trump earning high praise for his groundbreaking Mideast peace deal.
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Dana Perino
President Trump announcing that phase two in the cease fire agreement has begun and he's putting pressure on Hamas to put down its arms.
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Donald Trump
They will disarm. And I spoke to Hamas and I said, you're going to disarm, right? Yes, sir, we're going to disarm. That's what they told me. They will disarm or we will disarm them. Got it. Okay.
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Joe DeVito
What is the deadline?
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Greg Gutfeld
You said quickly, sir. Sir, you said quickly, but what is the deadline?
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Donald Trump
You're going to a reasonable period of time. Pretty, pretty quickly. A reasonable period of time.
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Dana Perino
And he was getting some well earned praise for his historic peace efforts. Time magazine heralding Trump's triumph on its cover. But President Trump wasn't too happy about the photo they used. He said, quote, time magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the worst of all time. They disappeared my hair. Meanwhile, President Trump's critics are getting back into the groove of calling him an authoritarian leader.
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Joe DeVito
You name it. The Trump administration has taken an unprecedented policy of extorting these institutions to toe the Trump political line. And that is the stuff of dictatorships.
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Dana Perino
He has definitely decided he's going to.
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Erica Kirk
Use the power of the federal government.
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Dana Perino
To attack American cities and the people who live there.
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Lawrence Jones
I mean, in a country that is.
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Joe DeVito
Losing its democracy, what are you going to do?
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Harold Ford Jr.
What are you going to do, complain?
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Lawrence Jones
Yes, every authoritarian leader has had his grim reaper.
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Dana Perino
Let's go. Let's Start with this, Harold. I kind of liked the photograph. I thought it was flattering of President Trump. And you liked it, too.
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Lawrence Jones
I did.
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Dana Perino
Are you in agreement?
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Lawrence Jones
I'm in agreement with you. If they ever decide to put me on the COVID of Time, you can disappear my hair. As long as you see I'm in peace.
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Joe DeVito
You were on the COVID of Newsweek, weren't you?
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Lawrence Jones
I was. And I had my hair.
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Joe DeVito
Yeah.
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Harold Ford Jr.
There.
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Lawrence Jones
That's it. A couple of things. First, the President deserves an incredible amount of credit here. I think listening to him today, if not all the credit. You read the piece there, the former Prime Minister, Mr. Barak, saying that President Trump was the leader that Israel needed. But here we are now in this second phase, I thought the most newsworthy thing from this press conference, which was overshadowed by a number of things. The Argentinian leader was there and there were questions about the 20 billion, the line of credit, whether or not we would go forward with it if he is not successful, he being the Argentinian leader in their midterm elections here shortly. And when the president said we will disarm Hamas if they don't disarm, I mean, I chalked that up as the president just sort of being the president talking the way that he talks and making it clear that we are firmly behind an effort to disarm them. Two, the questions around whether or not we'll have a two state solution and where we are there. I thought the president handled that well. So we've got to get through these phases here. And I think it's important that Democrats and even Republicans and certainly Democrats give him a little space here. This accomplishment by the president not only should be applauded, but we should be trying to figure out ways to help him, which helping him helps us, helps the United States. Having said that, the president should not think, nor should anyone believe that all politics is now on hold, that people have to agree with the president on everything that he's done. I'm saying what I believe the President is doing here is the right thing. Give him the space to get this done. But when it comes to other issues, domestic issues, people are going to have their disagreements with them. And guess what? That's American politics and always has been.
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Dana Perino
It is weird for some of these leaders, Lawrence, that they can't read the room because.
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Harold Ford Jr.
Thank you.
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Dana Perino
President Trump delivered the piece. There was very little help from the European partners, very little support from the.
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Harold Ford Jr.
Tried to sabotage it.
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Dana Perino
Nothing from the U.N. nothing from the U.N. if the U.N. was in charge of this, it had gone on for another 10 years.
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Harold Ford Jr.
So a couple things. If you failed at achieving peace, okay, we don't need your way in on this. You failed. It's like the person that loses a game and then wants to coach the person to a successful championship really is not needed. Number two, the Hitler talk has to stop. I mean, the Israelis, the Jewish state gave him the highest honor. The Hitler debate is gone now. It's over. The Jews have decided, they've decided, their country have decided. The Jewish state has said he's the best president in American history. We're giving him the highest honor ever.
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Donald Trump
Okay?
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Harold Ford Jr.
And then the third thing, I'm not saying Democrats can't disagree with the President on policy here back at home, but don't make an inconsistent argument. You can't say on one hand he has just achieved decades long peace with people that can't come together and say he's not willing to work with Congress. That just doesn't make sense. You can't say he's a radical. He's a person that was trying to get people from being blown up and getting beat to death and all that. And he wants the cops to come in the middle of the street and beat people at home. Is inconsistent. And I just think you lose credibility when the President, because of his action, has commanded the world stage and everybody's watching and everybody's celebrating. Even the people, the leaders, the French, the UK that tried to sabotage the deal all came to a heel. Canada too.
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Dana Perino
And all the people that we showed that were dissing the President, Greg, they were part of the free Palestine now. They wanted the ceasefire.
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Joe DeVito
I mean, if, when you look, it's pretty obvious the politicians that are saying authoritarian, it's a surrender. This is not real. They know it's not real. They have nothing left. This is like a guy on his sofa watched his team lose and just throwing the beer can at the tv. No one on the other side of the screen can feel it. But it's your way of getting it out. Nothing sticks anymore. But can you, I mean, do you honestly think when they call somebody an authoritarian, it sticks? Nobody is, it's, it's, it's white noise. It's like, oh yeah, whatever, you keep talking. As for, do we have, do we have Harold's when he was on Newsweek? Look at that, huh? Yeah, not your daddy's Democrat. So anyway, about, about Trump being on the COVID of Time. Trump was always like a two hour drive to an hour at the beach. You know, it's like it's gonna cost a lot, but when you get to the beach, it's awesome. But the reason why the drive took so long is because his opponents concentrated on making that drive miserable instead of creating an alternative path. Instead of saying, hey, maybe we can get to that beach too, and we can make a better life for you. No, if you choose the Trump path, we are gonna call you Hitler, we're gonna call you Nazis and authoritarians, and we're gonna make sure you pay. But you know what? It's like what I mentioned before about Scott. What's got people still stuck to the path and they drove all the way to the beach and now yesterday you saw the fruits of being at that beach. I do think for a lot of these people, not the politicians, but the people that hate Trump so much, it is the Trump derangement is the scaffolding for their ego. And if that thing starts crumbling, it's gonna be a disaster. So you gotta let him down slowly. You gotta let. Because over time, they're gonna realize everything that they were told. The entire narrative was wrong, dead wrong. What are they gonna do?
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Dana Perino
And a quick last word.
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Greg Gutfeld
Yeah. All I will say is, I don't know many authoritarian leaders who won 312 electoral votes. The popular vote shifted black, Latino and young voters by double digits and outright won the popular vote.
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Dana Perino
She can wrap it up. I love it. One More Thing is up next.
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Donald Trump
Hell. There's hell everywhere I go.
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Erica Kirk
I'm just sticking with the devil.
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Donald Trump
I love nearly whole.
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Greg Gutfeld
It's time now for One More Thing. And over to you, Greg.
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Joe DeVito
Tonight we got a great show. Cat Timp, Joe DeVito, Aaron McGuire and Tyrus. Hey, let's do this.
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Donald Trump
Yes.
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Tyrus
With special guest Bert Hume. So we're gonna guess the animal sounds. Why don't we play what the lovely young Molly Hemingway. Play the sounds. I didn't say you could. You could go yet.
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Donald Trump
Miss.
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Tyrus
This isn't the White House briefing room.
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Donald Trump
Miss.
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Tyrus
What would you like to say, Ms. McAn?
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Greg Gutfeld
A kitten.
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Tyrus
A kitten.
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Donald Trump
Hair.
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Tyrus
F. You're looking dapper today. Looking dapper.
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Harold Ford Jr.
I won't say it.
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Tyrus
Good friend of mine, you gotta come up.
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Lawrence Jones
Sort of bird.
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Tyrus
Some sort of bird? That's a bit generic. A flying bird. A flying bird. Okay.
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Joe DeVito
All right, fair enough.
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Tyrus
A bobcat. Young man, you are an articulate. Young man. You are a fine looking gentleman. An articulate fine looking gentleman. I must say that we've got you.
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Dana Perino
It's some sort of feline.
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Tyrus
And so are you, my fine lady. My fine lady. Dana. Ms. Dana Perino. You are quite the divine lady. Let's show the video. Kimball the cheetah from the Kansas City Zoo.
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Donald Trump
Wow.
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Greg Gutfeld
Lawrence for the win.
- [51:02]
Donald Trump
Nice.
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Dana Perino
Endangered species. You know why? They're weak. Okay, I wanted to take you to a live look at the New York City Mayors race. And here we go. One, two, three. There they go. We've got Cuomo, Mamdani, and Sliwa and somebody else trying to get in on the act there. Don't miss Tomorrow, Martha MacCallum will interview Mama Donny on the show.
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Lawrence Jones
Harold, one of the craziest plays in baseball. Your husband's got to appreciate this. Last night, the Brewers Dodgers game, Max Muncie hit this thing out in the midfield. He had the bases loaded. Watch. The ball bounces off the wall, but the runners don't know. They think that he just bobbled. So they stay on base. And it turns out they get a four side at home. You got to watch his. And he goes back to second because it should be a four set. So they got two outs. When it hits the top of the wall, it's a free ball. It's a hit.
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Dana Perino
Yeah.
- [51:50]
Lawrence Jones
So you know, you can't, you know, they thought he had caught the ball. I'm not describing this right, but this is one of the most, the wildest plays I've ever seen in baseball. Last night, I don't know, my husband.
- [51:59]
Greg Gutfeld
Thought this was the same thing. He explained the wall bounce to me. Yep, I got it.
- [52:02]
Dana Perino
Lawrence, you all right?
- [52:04]
Harold Ford Jr.
So this is. I think it's you. Kaylee first?
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Greg Gutfeld
No.
- [52:06]
Donald Trump
All right.
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Harold Ford Jr.
This is definitely not something you see in New York every day, but check out this wild video. The New Hampshire police responded to reports of a moose wandering downtown. Officers had to use lights and sirens to follow and help guide the animals safely out of the area. No one was hurt.
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Joe DeVito
Made it to the View in time.
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Greg Gutfeld
Well, that's beautiful. We'll get to mine next time. It's some good news from Florida. So that's a little tease. It's been a great show, everyone. Thanks for joining us here on the Five. That's it for us. Have a wonderful night.
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